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01-01-2015, 11:03 AM
This Country Banned Abortion and Now, Abortion Promoters Can’t Believe their Eyes!
“Outlaw abortion and abortion won’t stop. Women will just do it illegally and women will die!”
Or so the argument goes… But facts are pesky things, and they show that the opposite is true in Chile.
According to new research (http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-11/mi-tca110614.php) from the MELISA Institute, since Chile’s ban on abortion, not only has maternal health improved but the number of women seeking illegal abortion has plummeted!
Since Chile banned abortion in 1989, the number of maternal deaths decreased (http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0036613) from 41.3 to 12.7 per 100,000 women (69.2% reduction). That puts Chile in second place for the lowest maternal mortality rate in the Americas (that’s right, even better than the United States).
http://www.tpnn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/journal.pone_.0036613.g003.png (http://www.tpnn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/journal.pone_.0036613.g003.png)
Prof. Elard Koch, a molecular epidemiologist and lead author of the study, says educating women enhanced their ability to access existing health care resources, and since those resources included skilled attendants for childbirth, that directly led to a reduction of maternal deaths during pregnancy and childbirth.
As Dr. Koch explains, “it is a unique natural experiment conducted in a developing country.” During the fifty-year period under study, the overall maternal mortality rate dramatically declined by 93.8%, from 270.7 to 18.2 deaths per 100,000 live births, making Chile a leader in maternal healthcare outcomes in the Americas.
- See more at: http://www.personhoodusa.com/blog/this-country-banned-abortion-and-now-abortion-promoters-cant-believe-their-eyes/#sthash.0jPxEkVm.dpuf
“Outlaw abortion and abortion won’t stop. Women will just do it illegally and women will die!”
Or so the argument goes… But facts are pesky things, and they show that the opposite is true in Chile.
According to new research (http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-11/mi-tca110614.php) from the MELISA Institute, since Chile’s ban on abortion, not only has maternal health improved but the number of women seeking illegal abortion has plummeted!
Since Chile banned abortion in 1989, the number of maternal deaths decreased (http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0036613) from 41.3 to 12.7 per 100,000 women (69.2% reduction). That puts Chile in second place for the lowest maternal mortality rate in the Americas (that’s right, even better than the United States).
http://www.tpnn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/journal.pone_.0036613.g003.png (http://www.tpnn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/journal.pone_.0036613.g003.png)
Prof. Elard Koch, a molecular epidemiologist and lead author of the study, says educating women enhanced their ability to access existing health care resources, and since those resources included skilled attendants for childbirth, that directly led to a reduction of maternal deaths during pregnancy and childbirth.
As Dr. Koch explains, “it is a unique natural experiment conducted in a developing country.” During the fifty-year period under study, the overall maternal mortality rate dramatically declined by 93.8%, from 270.7 to 18.2 deaths per 100,000 live births, making Chile a leader in maternal healthcare outcomes in the Americas.
- See more at: http://www.personhoodusa.com/blog/this-country-banned-abortion-and-now-abortion-promoters-cant-believe-their-eyes/#sthash.0jPxEkVm.dpuf